Draw Your Own Galaxy Contest

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:47 pm

And the provisional winners (the manglement reserves the right to swap some out at a later date) are:

1. stardotstar:

2. me: (will probably replace with another of stardotstar’s)

3. Commander McLane:

4. stardotstar:

stardotstar is invited to report to Information for his prize, that being a mention in contributors.txt and the contributors thread.

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:11 pm

Would you consider using this one?

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:25 pm

I love the look of the new nebula effects.

stardotstar · Post by **stardotstar** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:49 am

Having just returned to my local system and checked in I am delighted!

Thank you very much and sorry for being so belated in dropping back. I have been playing but completely snowed by other forums and (real?) work!

Will

stardotstar · Post by **stardotstar** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:35 am

Capt. Kev, that one is sensational.

nijineko · Post by **nijineko** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:30 am

i finally found a tool that will let me output these style images. so i'll send some in eventually. =D

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Fri May 09, 2008 8:56 am

" love the look of the new nebula effects. "

my gamma must be rubbish, i can't see a thing other than the usual black space and some stars on that print.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:16 am

Yeah, the effect is really sublime, which is the nice thing about it.

Or my gamma is rubbish, too....

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri May 09, 2008 1:27 pm

Old screens, and in particular old CRTs, tend to be bad at showing dark colours. Boo.

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Fri May 09, 2008 3:54 pm

It's not very subtle but can you see it now?

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Sun May 11, 2008 12:29 pm

ahhh, yep... that's reeeallly clear...

...

...ah, that's better...

..but, yes, the new overall effects are very pretty. In fact, combined with the new planetary textures, Oolite has been significantly transformed visually. Very impressive.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Sun May 11, 2008 7:21 pm

yeah, that one worked. and i'm not using CRT, but i don't use the standard windows gammas etc, so that might explain something.
but if you look through APOD, some nebulae are anything but subtle

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:57 am

The nebulae you see on APOD are also far from realistic.

In natural light, nebulae are generally quite hard to spot, especially if you’re close to them.

Stromboli · Post by **Stromboli** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:50 pm

Darn, I guess it's too late to drop this one off then.

Drawn by hand in Photoshop.

EDIT

Wow, I completely forgot to look at the dates. Whoops.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:59 pm

Maybe add some pixelated noise to the smeared stuff...
or blur the grainy parts a bit more.

ccan you spot the nebula dwelling alien?
It's head is in the middle of the tophalf of the image.